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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: High-pitced noise from monitor
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Date: 26 Feb 91 16:18:43 GMT
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In article <3007@meaddata.meaddata.com> timk@meaddata.com (Tim Klein) writes:
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|In article <44506@ut-emx.uucp>, daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H.
|Huang) writes:
||> Lately, my AppleColor RGB monitor has been making a high pitched
||> noise. It's not very loud, but it is very annoying. I've heard that on
||> the B/W Macs, this is usually caused by a bad connection around the
||> flyback transformer. Could that be my problem?
|
|I had the same problem with a composite monitor.  It bothered the *?@@%^
|out of me for weeks until I accidentally knocked off the book that had
|been lying on top of it.  It seems that putting pressure on the top of
|the monitor caused it to squeal for some arcane reason!
|
|I've since seen two others that suffered from the same problem.

This sounds a lot like the cause of my problem... The day the
squealing began, I had put a small monochrome monitor on top if it
(temporarily). After I took the monitor off, the squealing became more
intermittent, and I haven't heard anything from it lately.

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|Timothy Klein                 I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up
|timk@meaddata.com             the intelligence.  The one marked Brightness
|...!uunet!meaddata!timk       doesn't work.      -- Gallagher


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